lunarul @ lunarul @lemmy.world

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What happened to her dress?

I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.

I'm in my 40s now and I definitely did not burn near as many CDs as my dad did (he was born in '49)

Wouldn't not ok be at the bottom and very ok at the top?

I never owned a 486 either. My first upgrade after the 286 was a Pentium.

• The light is beamed from the human head in 360 degrees when ever they communicate, visible for up to 1KM

This sounds extremely impractical. It's like everyone can only yell at the top of their lungs. At least we can choose to focus on the person we're interested in and ignore background "noise". But someone trying to get our attention would be difficult. Now we can just call someone's name from behind them. Something equivalent would be impossible.

More pixels:

Rope and anchor much easier to see here.

I personally find the effects from the original trilogy easier to still watch today than the effects in the prequels.

Machine learning, renamed "AI" with the LLM boom, does not simulate intelligence. It integrates feedback loops, which is kind of like learning and it uses a network of nodes which kind of look like neurons if you squint from a distance. These networks have been around for many decades, I've built a bunch myself in college, and they're at their core just polynomial functions with a lot of parameters. Current technology allows very large networks and networks of networks, but it's still not in any way similar to brains.

There is separate research into simulating neurons and brains, but that is separate from machine learning.

Also we don't actually understand how our brains work at the level where we could copy them. We understand some things and have some educated guesses on others, but overall it's pretty much a mistery still.

I do all my browsing in private mode, so I have no open tabs other than this one.

There's no technical reason to think we won't in the next 20-50 years

Other than that nobody has any idea how to go about it? The things called "AI" today are not precursors to AGI. The search for strong AI is still nowhere close to any breakthroughs.

"Phone pocket?" -JD Vance

Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn't really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I'm too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.

Never understood why, but it's called "thick milk" in mine.

Upwork publishes which skills are most in demand on the platform every year: https://www.upwork.com/resources/in-demand-jobs-and-skills

That should be a good starting point. See which of those you're interested in and can be learned online.

Like all Romance languages, number "one" has different masculine and feminine forms, depending on what you're counting. Unlike other Romance languages, number "two" is also gendered.

which seems to be missing a digit

It also seems to have a nail growing from a knuckle.

Have they stopped airing Zeffirelli's one on TV? I remember it was always on the schedule during Easter.

Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn't recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.

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